From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-03T14:53:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Can soneone tell me what I'm doing wrong...


From: "Matt Gushee" <mgushee@havenrock.com>


> > >>> > If you ever used C++, then you would have known the issue of deleting
an
> > >>> > element while you are traversing the container using an iterator.
>
> Well, that's simple enough. I was expecting something more esoteric. So
> does this mean that at the implementation level there's really no
> difference between
>
>     stuff.each
>
> and
>
>     for (int i = 0; i < stuff.length(); i++) {
>
> ?
>
> --
> Matt Gushee

For an array, perhaps, but it's not true for a generic iterator.  Not
everything that supports :each also supports :length.

Or :[] for that matter.

Gavin